Gualtieri voted to chair influential ECON Committee

Italian MEP Roberto Gualtieri has been
appointed as chairman of the EU’s Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Committee.

The role was previously held by Sharon
Bowles, a member of the UK’s Liberal Democrat Party, who stepped down after two
years in the job at the end of the 2014 Parliament.

Gualtieri, from Italy’s Partito
Democratico, has been an MEP since 2009 and previously served as a substitute
member of the ECON Committee between 2012 and 2014.

He will be supported by ECON Committee
veterans Markus Ferber, who has served the Committee since 2009 and was the
lead rapporteur for MiFID II during its legislative stage, and Peter Simon, who
has also served ECON for the past five years, both of whom take the role of
vice-chairs.

Two further posts are set to be confirmed
in Strasbourg on 14 July.

The ECON Committee is responsible for
analysing and advising Parliament on economic policy and financial regulation.